Analysis of The Empty Nest

William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)



I saunter all about the pleasant place
You made thrice pleasant, O my friends, to me;
But you are gone where laughs in radiant grace
That thousand-memoried unimpulsive sea.
To storied precincts of the southern foam,
Dear birds of passage, ye have taken wing,
And ah! for me, when April wafts you home,
The spring will more than ever be the spring
Still lovely, as of old, this haunted ground;
Tenderly, still, the autumn sunshine falls;
And gorgeously the woodlands tower around,
Freak'd with wild light at golden intervals:
Yet, for the ache your absence leaves, O friends,
Earth's lifeless pageantries are poor amends.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 1111011111 11111101001 110111 110110101 1111011101 0111110111 0111110101 1101111101 100101011 01011001 1111110100 1101110111 11011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 615
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Watson

William Watson, was a surgeon in the 105th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers during the American Civil War. more…

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